On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, David Silberstein wrote: #On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Philip Hart wrote: # #>Kiera has been reported to have claimed to have done that. I never #>believed the report - thought it was self-aggrandizement. "Self", I #>should write. #> # #Well, considering that (a) she made the report herself and (b) she has #been shown to be exceedingly highly skilled, and exceedingly careful, #I see no reason to doubt her. Also, she doesn't seem to boast at all, #although she does occasionally show off, just to remind people that #she really is as good as her reputation and not to be trifled with. And she says in _Orca_ that she's never done anything as Kiera the Thief that Kiera couldn't do. I suspect that with a long enough lifetime one could learn an awful lot of even non-magical and non-psychic sneakiness. -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website